{"product_id":"mid-twentieth-century-women-writers-country-house-fiction-from-elizabeth-bowen-to-ivy-compton-burnett-hardcover","title":"Mid-Twentieth-Century Women Writers: Country House Fiction from Elizabeth Bowen to Ivy Compton-Burnett - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndrew Radford\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1940, as English country estates faced requisition, neglect, and the threat of aerial bombardment, Elizabeth Bowen observed that life in the 'Big House, in its circle of trees' exerted a powerful and enduring 'spell'. That spell still shapes English literary culture, dominated by an apparently familiar landscape of imposing fictional residences - Brideshead, Howards End, Poynton, Pemberley - whose grandeur seems to promise continuity, heritage, and reassurance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book challenges that familiar map. It argues that a group of technically daring and prolific women novelists deliberately returned to the country house in the mid-twentieth century not as nostalgic inheritors, but as sharp-eyed anatomists of its habits, myths, and moral authority. Through close readings of works by Elizabeth Bowen, Elizabeth Taylor, Ivy Compton-Burnett, and Barbara Comyns, this book shows how the country house novel of the 1940s and 1950s became a distinctive imaginative space in which literary tradition itself could be tested and unsettled.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt a moment when the civic, economic, and ideological foundations of the landed estate were visibly cracking, these writers transformed the stately home from a repository of lineage and cultural memory into a site of exposure. Far from offering reassurance, their fiction reveals the persistence of social hierarchies whose authority has begun to hollow out even as they endure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 152\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.38 x 8.5 x 5.43 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 11, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52199841169703,"sku":"9781805960102","price":135.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1002\/2079\/7223\/files\/s-o_Z7doRp9781805960102.webp?v=1790736690","url":"https:\/\/theluminousbookshop.com\/es\/products\/mid-twentieth-century-women-writers-country-house-fiction-from-elizabeth-bowen-to-ivy-compton-burnett-hardcover","provider":"The Luminous Book Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}